Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley, who gave up editing his National Review for a few months while he ran for mayor of New York. He didn't run too well, and last week Bill Buckley went back to journalism with a bang. Some 2,500 friends and well-wishers gathered in the ballroom of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to cele brate the tenth anniversary of his conservative magazine, which started as a weekly with 10,000 circulation and has grown to a biweekly with...
This remarkable exercise in betteir communication between the two so cieties was topped off with a vodka-and-caviar reception in the hotel's ballroom overlooking the Moscow skyline. In a gesture that heartens admen the world over, Vneshtorgreklama President Anatoliy V. Vasilyev asked to see a rate card. And to Charlie Bear's diplomatic comment that "all things are accomplishable by time and effort," Vasilyev replied that "the time for TIME is propitious...
...Normandy resort "Deauville, Ville du Cheval." It was time for the biggest party of October in New York, the April in Paris Ball. The 1,400 jewel-hung society folks from all over the U.S. and nearly 100 from Paris jammed into the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom and adjoining suites for a nine-hour blast for four French and American charities. "A gay and brilliant assemblage," said the society reporters next morning. It was indeed. And at one point in the evening, a New York Times photographer snapped a picture of Socialite Stephen Sanford, Mrs. Rose Kennedy...
...Beatles stepped forward in the state ballroom of Buckingham Palace and bowed shyly. "How long have you been together now?" the Queen asked softly. "Oh, for many years," muttered Paul McCartney. Then Queen Elizabeth II pinned the silver badges of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on their solemn, ungear suits. Outside, things were normal again, with a few hundred caterwauling kids trying to crash the palace gates and the Beatles bubbling Liverpudlian again. "She's got a keen pad," whooped Paul, "and I liked the staff. I thought they'd be dukes...
...mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances, and it is not for me to say too hastily whether they are good...